The former police chief of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, who retired in March, has been charged with driving under the influence after he crashed his vehicle into a utility pole in South Plainfield in September.

Brian T. Mahoney, 51, spent eleven years as the top cop in Scotch Plains.

Just before midnight on September 10, he was driving his 2016 Dodge Durango westbound on New Durham Road when his vehicle veered and struck a utility pole, which split in half.

In a police report, the responding officer says that Mahoney initially said that he “did not remember why he struck the pole,” but later told the officer he was talking on his cell phone at the time of the accident.

Mahoney’s breath smelled of alcohol, according to the report, and after he was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for treatment of his injuries, police asked for a search warrant and got a blood sample to test for alcohol.

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